Re: conditionally compiling C++ code

[Ronald Landheer-Cieslak]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Thomas E. Dickey wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Ronald Landheer-Cieslak wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Sander Niemeijer wrote:
> > > I was just wondering, but aren't the --with-PACKAGE/--enable-FEATURE
> > > options of configure meant for this?
> > Exactly, and it is up to the author of the configure.ac file to make sure
> > these options work as they're supposed to. Your way of handling these
> > options (snipped) is the right way *if* the macros can be run optionally -
> > and this should, IMHO, always be the case (except for macros of vital
> > importance to configure itself, such as AC_INIT.
> however - backtracking - the original point was that this was what someone
> wanted to do; it doesn't work because that choice was removed (iirc, in
> 2.49a), and there is explicitly (we've discussed this more than once in
> the past 4 years) no support for it in current autoconf.
Yep. In fact, most of this thread is just what we call "oude koeien uit de 
sloot halen" in dutch - re-iterating arguments that have been around for 
quite a while.

I still think it's a bug, though - whether it's explicitly not supported 
or not.

rlc